Hello, Friend! Can't call you another way, you just saved my brain. I have watched so many videos about skin tone and only yours really helped me. Thank you so much! Hello from Ukraine ♥️
This was very helpful. I have had this problem every time I shoot someone close to the red mountains in AZ. The clients skin turns out really red due to the reflection of light. This worked like a charm.
Will this work for skin colors of all tones? I'm curious because I have seen people turn darker skin tones into a lighter skin tone and wonder if this technique would make it possible to do the opposite. I'd rather watch a tutorial from Phlearn as I think you are the best with explaining what and why you are doing the adjustments. I think you are a wonderful teacher. I would love to see a video, but if this technique can be applied to do what I mentioned, I guess there would be no need. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this.
Great episode. A real world retouching problem, analysed and solved with a professional technique, accompanied with a clear step-by-step walk through. Even if the skin tone isn't to your taste, we've been given the skills to adjust it to our own preference. Good job PHLearn. Hmmm... been trying this technique out since the above comment and in practise it only works if the two shots are of the same contrast. If they're not you need to adjust the contrasts to match before applying the colour adjustment. If not you'll get frustrated with the results.
Dear Phlearn I adore your tutorials and never stop watching and even re-watching them. You are incredible! I'd only like to state that I really really loved the night setting behind you, it gave me a different feeling of relaxation as I (and im sure a lot of other people) watch your videos after school/work, which is at evening/night. If you could throw in a few more night episodes here and there that would allow me to find salvation and eternal peace. Sorry for the long message. Viva la Phlearn.
I love it. Previously you made a video on how to match skin tones but you used levels instead. Do you use this technique because you learned that this way is better?
Some people take the baby's natural skin tone and makes the baby look still born, they way overdo the whiteness of the baby. but this video is really neat. Phlearntastic!
I love how this actually taught me something that I can use, I can reference it easily and is accurate with its information. I love these videos. Please keep making more.
Nice tutorial. I’ve noticed allot of tutorials missing the most important 1st step. You can achieve allot more accuracy by working in CMYK. So converting your image from RGB to CMYK should always be done first. This is essential if the image will go to print.
This is the best video ever! I've seriously been looking for something like this for a really long time. I've always struggled with skin tones in my photos; Is it too red, too orange, too yellow? Now I have a way to reference other photos that I think have great skin tones, and adjust my photo to match. I can not thank you enough for how awesome this is! I do however have one question: How do I know which channel I need to adjust on the hue slider? In this video, you only adjusted the red channel, what if I needed to adjust other channels? How could I know that by using the color picker?
What a great technique!! Quickly looking through, I'm not finding a quick answer -- for a jaundice baby, who's skin is super yellow/orange, would you adjust the yellow channel on the hue/sat instead of the red? Seemed to do better, but either way, it still doesn't quite look right. Thanks for a great tutorial!
Could you please include a link to the original image in the description for all your future videos. I, like many people, learn and remember by doing. Having the exact same original image and going through each step with you would be easy and fun.
Great. But you say the two averaged sample colours now match, but to me these samples (not the whole baby pics) are still very different. Where am I wrong? The end result is however awesome.
This is just so freaking obvious once it is pointed out. Much of the stuff Aaron teaches I have to keep links to so that I can watch them again before attempting it. But this? It almost literally caused me to slap my forehead and shout "Doh!". Peter Hurley pointed this out to his Headshot Crew, and Aaron, allow me to thank you for all of us. This will make it so much easier to color match a headshot portfolio.
Excellent and very helpful tutorial, Aaron -- Thank you. I especially appreciate the way you always do a preview before and a summary after the detailed technique exposé for each episode. Good work! You show us -- again and again, in many different ways, the amazing power of a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer. What would we do without it?
This technique is good but I don't like using only the red channel to fix this (for images generally). It should work for all images and use the overall RGB hue values instead.
Dang it Aaron.... You're still a beast... I've become very busy with my job and so I haven't been able to keep up with the Phlearn videos as I have liked for a few months... I just started trying to catch up again and there you go again - hitting the target and blowing my mind on another technique... Keep up the great work!!! :) Video suggestion: I find that dark skin is so much harder to retouch. Can this technique work for lightening dark skin or can you make a video on lightening dark skin? I've had those requests from friends whom I've photographed and I always have a hard time making dark skin lighter. Please help!
I used to do like this... I have some good tips - don´t know if you did not say that just to make it straight to the point, but you can put some eyedroper color samples, and increase the size of the sample, and this way you don´t need to perform an average blur... More over it would be a good idea to sample in the difuse light shading (not highlights or shadows). And yes, you can setup the samples to read as HSB. Wayyy faster. So anytime you increase the Hue you don´t need to do "maths" - the info will show you, it´s more intuitive. You can compare te ref. point, and the target, and the info will also show how it is the number previous and before the HSV Adjstment Layer. But anyway, a baby´s skin is not that peachy, it´s a little rosyer, so in my opinion the ref. was over yellowish. I would rather finetune to somewhere 15º than 18º. Hugs!
+Mohammad Zahri Because if you look at the original picture you can see the predominance of red within it. Skin tones are mainly made up of a mixture of red and yellow...
@@michaeldupont7530 i am colorblind and i edit photographs also Its just cool someone like myself that does the same thing. Do you have a website or instagram. Its hard to do retouching and photo editing as a colorblind person.
I have stockpiled all your videos because they are like gold! Thanks
I saw many of your tutorials but this one is THE BEST EVER.
That was CRAZY cool. Awesome explanation, Aaron!
Hello, Friend! Can't call you another way, you just saved my brain. I have watched so many videos about skin tone and only yours really helped me. Thank you so much! Hello from Ukraine ♥️
🤗🤗 Thanks so much for watching!
Every day you learn something new! Thanks
This was very helpful. I have had this problem every time I shoot someone close to the red mountains in AZ. The clients skin turns out really red due to the reflection of light. This worked like a charm.
this is the best idea to fix and match color .... thank you
Great tutorial! I am using this on my most recent set of baby images and I'm blown away by how much time I'm saving. Thank you!
that degrees bit is just brilliant, the best tricks come out of doodling in photoshop with a cup of coffee near by.
Love the simplicity of this tutorial!
Will this work for skin colors of all tones? I'm curious because I have seen people turn darker skin tones into a lighter skin tone and wonder if this technique would make it possible to do the opposite. I'd rather watch a tutorial from Phlearn as I think you are the best with explaining what and why you are doing the adjustments. I think you are a wonderful teacher. I would love to see a video, but if this technique can be applied to do what I mentioned, I guess there would be no need. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this.
Really interesting!! Congratulation PHLEARN!
Thanks for this. Very simple to do and useful
Great episode. A real world retouching problem, analysed and solved with a professional technique, accompanied with a clear step-by-step walk through. Even if the skin tone isn't to your taste, we've been given the skills to adjust it to our own preference. Good job PHLearn.
Hmmm... been trying this technique out since the above comment and in practise it only works if the two shots are of the same contrast. If they're not you need to adjust the contrasts to match before applying the colour adjustment. If not you'll get frustrated with the results.
That was an extremely useful video! Thank u PHLEARN! 😊🙏🏽
Dear Phlearn
I adore your tutorials and never stop watching and even re-watching them. You are incredible!
I'd only like to state that I really really loved the night setting behind you, it gave me a different feeling of relaxation as I (and im sure a lot of other people) watch your videos after school/work, which is at evening/night.
If you could throw in a few more night episodes here and there that would allow me to find salvation and eternal peace.
Sorry for the long message. Viva la Phlearn.
I love it. Previously you made a video on how to match skin tones but you used levels instead. Do you use this technique because you learned that this way is better?
Again, the best color matching tutorial!
Some people take the baby's natural skin tone and makes the baby look still born, they way overdo the whiteness of the baby. but this video is really neat. Phlearntastic!
Aaron, phlearn never ceases to blow my mind.
thanks for all those tips Aaron!!!!!
I love how this actually taught me something that I can use, I can reference it easily and is accurate with its information. I love these videos. Please keep making more.
Love it! Aaron you are the best!!! Thank you so much for teaching us... Greetings from Brazil!
I'm doing an "Filter - Blur - Average" of a medium brown skin tone and it averages to white. Very perplexing.
You are amazing! Thank you so much!!
Wow, really simple and powerful tutorial Mr Nace. Amazing is the power of Photoshop in the right hands.
What a game changer, so fast, so easy and so natural, thank you thank you thank you!!!!
Great episode. I always feel like I get better. Your ideas are brilliant!!
Great video. I've used photoshop for a long time and still learnt a couple of tricks.
Phlearn so rad. Having a baby next month so this should come in handy. Cheers!
Nice tutorial. I’ve noticed allot of tutorials missing the most important 1st step. You can achieve allot more accuracy by working in CMYK. So converting your image from RGB to CMYK should always be done first. This is essential if the image will go to print.
love this, its going to make adjusting colors so much easier!
Great your explanation! Soooo clear and easy!!! Thanks! Will continue following you!
This is great Aaron! You are first class, and this is particularly helpful for me! Thanks as always!
Great method, thanks teacher. I´m learning a lot. Regards.
This is the best video ever! I've seriously been looking for something like this for a really long time. I've always struggled with skin tones in my photos; Is it too red, too orange, too yellow? Now I have a way to reference other photos that I think have great skin tones, and adjust my photo to match. I can not thank you enough for how awesome this is! I do however have one question: How do I know which channel I need to adjust on the hue slider? In this video, you only adjusted the red channel, what if I needed to adjust other channels? How could I know that by using the color picker?
Will be joining Phlearn soon, love the videos.
Became a huge fan of your work. Greetings from Brazil
Great tut. Always learning. Best!
Wow! I can easily find a dozen different ways this can be useful, THANK YOU!
GREAT tutorial. Thank you!!!
Aaron your awesome! You make it so easy to learn!
Extremely useful for me! Thanks!
Can you please share more tutorials for baby photography and editing.
Great! simple but so effective!
Excellent tutorial! Thank you Aaron!! 😊
What a great technique!! Quickly looking through, I'm not finding a quick answer -- for a jaundice baby, who's skin is super yellow/orange, would you adjust the yellow channel on the hue/sat instead of the red? Seemed to do better, but either way, it still doesn't quite look right. Thanks for a great tutorial!
Could you please include a link to the original image in the description for all your future videos.
I, like many people, learn and remember by doing. Having the exact same original image and going through each step with you would be easy and fun.
Brilliant tutorial. Thank you. Not quite so sure how you worked out the minus 5 on the lightness slider.
+David Croft Watch the video again. He explains it as he's doing it.
+Glockshna Got it. Thank you.
Thanks for the tutorial!
thank you so much . you are the best . i love your tutorials. they are so helpful !
Wow you made it very simple, it will save a lot of time. Thank you🤗
Thanks for sharing, and finally it comes to newborn! as I am a newborn photographer :) Looking forward to having more of this kinda tutorial
Very helpful video! Thanks a lot!
one word. {LEGEND}. simple but effective.
Those kind of tip are really usefull! Thanks!
how do you invent this? just wow!!
this guy makes the best photoshop tutorials
Very smart way to match.
Great technique. Thanks man.
guys u r amazing .. i like all your videos and i like how u make it so easy for us ( beginners )
thanks a lot
So simple, so brilliant, thank you.......
Great. But you say the two averaged sample colours now match, but to me these samples (not the whole baby pics) are still very different. Where am I wrong? The end result is however awesome.
This is just so freaking obvious once it is pointed out. Much of the stuff Aaron teaches I have to keep links to so that I can watch them again before attempting it. But this? It almost literally caused me to slap my forehead and shout "Doh!". Peter Hurley pointed this out to his Headshot Crew, and Aaron, allow me to thank you for all of us. This will make it so much easier to color match a headshot portfolio.
Amazing trick. Thank you for sharing
H this is a great way for skin color thanks A. Nace
Brilliant tutorial! Many thanks! 👍
Wow thats a clever way to do it awesome tutorial as always phlearn
Excellent and very helpful tutorial, Aaron -- Thank you. I especially appreciate the way you always do a preview before and a summary after the detailed technique exposé for each episode. Good work! You show us -- again and again, in many different ways, the amazing power of a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer. What would we do without it?
This is great. And so usefull not only for babys
Omg! Perfect... That's such an awesome trick... You're just Incredible Aaron!
oh. my. god. why did I not know this..?!
How did I not know this before?? Thank you!
awesome episode as always! Thanks!
This technique is good but I don't like using only the red channel to fix this (for images generally). It should work for all images and use the overall RGB hue values instead.
Dang it Aaron.... You're still a beast... I've become very busy with my job and so I haven't been able to keep up with the Phlearn videos as I have liked for a few months... I just started trying to catch up again and there you go again - hitting the target and blowing my mind on another technique... Keep up the great work!!! :) Video suggestion: I find that dark skin is so much harder to retouch. Can this technique work for lightening dark skin or can you make a video on lightening dark skin? I've had those requests from friends whom I've photographed and I always have a hard time making dark skin lighter. Please help!
This is MAGIC!
No wonder, you are the photoshop genius for sure!
I used to do like this... I have some good tips - don´t know if you did not say that just to make it straight to the point, but you can put some eyedroper color samples, and increase the size of the sample, and this way you don´t need to perform an average blur... More over it would be a good idea to sample in the difuse light shading (not highlights or shadows). And yes, you can setup the samples to read as HSB. Wayyy faster. So anytime you increase the Hue you don´t need to do "maths" - the info will show you, it´s more intuitive. You can compare te ref. point, and the target, and the info will also show how it is the number previous and before the HSV Adjstment Layer.
But anyway, a baby´s skin is not that peachy, it´s a little rosyer, so in my opinion the ref. was over yellowish. I would rather finetune to somewhere 15º than 18º.
Hugs!
It would have been interesting if you moved the hue adjustment above your baby's colour average and shown that the two blocks were in fact identical.
Great tutorial, as usual ... thank you!
wow. i,m impressed ! super clever!
Explain how to change resolution to high and how to resize image sizes in photoshop
Woohoo it worked. Thanks Aaron. Just need to find a better stock image haha
oh my gooood! thanks Aaron!
Thank you !! Aaron
Where did he get that camera sticker on his mac? So cool, I want one.
This is incredible! Thank you!
Fantastic tutorial
Very good tutorial as always.
Thank you for such an easy tip! Very useful, as usual.
Nice
One quick question... How to decide to choose red or other color to affect
+Mohammad Zahri Because if you look at the original picture you can see the predominance of red within it. Skin tones are mainly made up of a mixture of red and yellow...
+Frogman thnx
Awesome. Love your videos!!
Wonderful, thank you!
Very interesting tutorial as always,well explained.
I am colorblind, that will be an awesome photoshop tool for me, thanks Aaron :-)
+Michaël Dupont That must be a real challenge when photo editing...
Well no one is complaining about my pictures so far... But I know that could be a problem sometimes.
@@michaeldupont7530 you are colorblind also while editing photos?
@@mcculloughimagery4952 what do you mean by also? It's a condition I am always colorblind.
@@michaeldupont7530 i am colorblind and i edit photographs also Its just cool someone like myself that does the same thing. Do you have a website or instagram. Its hard to do retouching and photo editing as a colorblind person.
great episode as always
Thank you for the video. This was exactly what I needed
Thank you , love love love this
awesome tut, thank you